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The hazy notion of “psychosocial risk” leads to confusion and double-speak. This notion (there can be no question of qualifying it as a “concept”) feeds the technicization of social relations and the elimination of work. In the first part, it will be suggested that the “psychosocial risk,” an umbrella term if ever there was one, has a recent history. In the second part, we will then see how the notion is positioned between good intentions and intellectual fraud. The third part of the article seeks to put the analyst’s own house in order: resisting the elimination of work is not only a diagnosis to be made for others.